Fred the Clown: Just A Couple of Dummies

I think this was my first foray into the criminally-underexploited "Ventriloquist-Dummy-As-Cartoon-Character" genre, of which (off the top of my head) I seem to be the only practitioner. This particular strip was a bit of a damp squib, but it laid the seeds for one of my favourite Fred stories, Dummies, as well as a Mugwhump the Great story, The Show Must Go On. So – a necessary stepping stone, I suppose.